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House Speaker Dade Phelan wins runoff, surviving challenge by Texas GOP’s far-right forces
The Texas Tribune· 2 hours agoSign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the...
North Texas GOP runoff race for State Board of Education nearly tied, early voting shows
Dallas Morning News· 2 hours agoA North Texas Republican is ahead in her bid to keep her seat on theTexas State Board of Education...
Texas Republican who led Paxton impeachment effort defeats Trump-backed rival
The Hill· 1 hour agoTexas House Speaker Dade Phelan (R) was projected to narrowly win his primary runoff on Tuesday,...
The Bible in Public Schools Isn’t Even the Wildest Plank of the Texas GOP Platform
Esquire· 5 hours agoPerhaps the most consequential plank calls for a constitutional amendment to require that candidates...
Amid intraparty animus, Texas GOP moves further to the right with new platform, party chair |...
Houston Public Media· 11 hours agoAnother plank would require all candidates for statewide office to carry a majority of Texas’ 254...
Texas’s run-off primary; Trump’s closing arguments
The Economist· 22 hours agoThe speaker is the most notable of several incumbents that either Greg Abbott, Texas’s governor, or Ken Paxton, its attorney-general, is bent on...
Dade Phelan beats right-wing challenger David Covey in primary
San Antonio Express-News· 4 hours agoHouse Speaker Dade Phelan survived an unusually tough and bitter GOP primary challenge Tuesday,...
It’s primary runoff election day in Texas. Here’s what we’re watching.
KRGV Rio Grande Valley· 7 hours agoSign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the...
At Texas GOP convention, Republicans call for spiritual warfare
The Weatherford Democrat· 6 hours agoThe party’s proposed platform also included planks that would effectively lock Democrats out of...
Texas Republicans’ civil war | Latest US politics news from The Economist
The Economist· 22 hours agoThe speaker of Texas’s House of Representatives takes on a fellow Republican...